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Ingvar Kamprad

1926 - 2018

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Feodor Ingvar Kamprad (Swedish: [ˈɪ̌ŋːvar ˈkǎmːprad] ; 30 March 1926 – 27 January 2018) was a Swedish billionaire business magnate who founded IKEA in 1943 and grew it into a multinational retail company that became the world's largest furniture seller in 2008. He moved to Switzerland with his Swiss wife in 1976, moving back to Småland in 2014 after her death in 2011. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ingvar Kamprad is the 16th most popular businessperson (down from 13th in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from Sweden (down from 13th in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Businessperson.

Ingvar Kamprad is most famous for founding IKEA, a furniture company that sells affordable furniture.

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Among businesspeople, Ingvar Kamprad ranks 16 out of 847. Before him are Jeff Bezos, Sepp Blatter, Bernie Madoff, Vince McMahon, Aristotle Onassis, and Robert McNamara. After him are Jamsetji Tata, Florentino Pérez, Cosimo de' Medici, Ferruccio Lamborghini, Bernard Arnault, and Tim Cook.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Ingvar Kamprad ranks 6. Before him are Elizabeth II, Marilyn Monroe, Fidel Castro, Michel Foucault, and Alfredo Di Stéfano. After him are Jiang Zemin, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Leslie Nielsen, Thích Nhất Hạnh, Dario Fo, and Ben Roy Mottelson. Among people deceased in 2018, Ingvar Kamprad ranks 9. Before him are George H. W. Bush, Barbara Bush, Ursula K. Le Guin, Kofi Annan, Charles Aznavour, and Montserrat Caballé. After him are Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, Bernardo Bertolucci, Stan Lee, Miloš Forman, Joe Jackson, and John Young.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Ingvar Kamprad ranks 23 out of 1,879. Before him are Dag Hammarskjöld (1905), Charles XII of Sweden (1682), Ingrid Bergman (1915), Bridget of Sweden (1303), Tomas Tranströmer (1931), and Sigismund III Vasa (1566). After him are Gustaf V of Sweden (1858), Gustav I of Sweden (1496), Charles XV of Sweden (1826), Charles X Gustav of Sweden (1622), Charles XIII of Sweden (1748), and Dieterich Buxtehude (1637).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In Sweden

Among businesspeople born in Sweden, Ingvar Kamprad ranks 1. After him are Ludvig Nobel (1831), Ivar Kreuger (1880), Stefan Persson (1947), Anders Frisk (1963), Niklas Zennström (1966), Daniel Ek (1983), and Christian von Koenigsegg (1972).

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